Atheists: If God was created by primitive people, why religions in Africa are all underdeveloped?

Question

In comparison, in technologically advanced nations, religions grow, change, adapt, and spread to other countries.

In ancient history, religions in China and India spreaded throughout Asia. Today, Christian churches can be found all over the world. Why can't atheists view religions as a part of (and an important part of ) social science, just like philosophy.

Answer 1

Oh, we do think religion is a significant part of social science. We just don't think of it as a positive aspect.

Answer 2

Religions do not change. If they did, people wouldn't follow them.

Early on, Christianity, like most religious doctrines, was spread through force. The native populations either converted, or were killed. Study your history - The Crusades, the Spanish conquest of the Americas, the various Inquisitions.

I don't know what the heck you mean by, "why religions in Africa are all underdeveloped?" God WAS created by primitive people, but Africans are not primitive, they are poor. There is a difference.

Religion IS a part of social science, however it is distinctly different from philosophy. Religion tries to tell us that supernatural phenomenon affect the natural world, which is ridiculous.

I hope this helps to answer your very disjointed question.

Answer 3

Your first blunders. God only created 2 human beings, Adam and Eve who really were not atheists. all of us after that, except perchance the Christ, is the manufactured from the organic technique of reproduction. each man or woman born, through default is an agnostic - not fairly understanding something. If we seem at primitive remoted cultures that were stumbled on global it really is divided. maximum regarded a spirit international, some along with dissimilar gods, some comprise a great god . there have been also 3 or 4 that to no thoughts of any god, and were not very in contact about origins. If atheism is the default it would want to seem a minimum of maximum human beings if not all of those remoted primitive cultures might want to be atheistic as hostile to only a small minority. Your thesis does not seem to carry up.

Answer 4

So what is your statement, that underdeveloped parts of the world don't have religion, or less? What has grown or changed about religion in more developed places? The volume of people talked into following it? That seems to be about it.

All cultures had their creation stories and stories with important meanings to help guide their people by the standards of their tribe. It just eventually turned into religion...sadly enough.

Answer 5

I'm not sure I understand your question,but yes religion is an important prat of the social structure of all societies. Most atheist (The teenagers on this site excepted) would agree to that. African religions were isolated because African cultures were isolated.
That being said, no religion can show evidence of being anything other than a man made construction.

Answer 6

Organized religions have had a huge impact in forming the world we see today.However,that has nothing to do with them being right or wrong.And nobody would deny the impact it has on peoples around the world.The argument is to wether or not that influence is positive or negative,and ,quite frankly,most of our major social problems can be directly attributed either directly to religion(faith wars,for example) or the attempts to placate a particular religious group(ie.puritans in the new world)

Answer 7

It's not that we don't understand the importance of religion. In fact, as most of you fail to note, many religions are atheistic.

Fine, let's look at religion the same way we'd look at philosophy. There are philosophers whose ideas I admire and respect. Others seem clueless. Now let's do the same thing with religion...

Answer 8

How are religions in Africa underdeveloped? And what does primitive people making up god figures to worship have to do with why Africa, according to you, having underdeveloped religions?

Answer 9

perhaps because not all growth is necessarily for the best.

hi-tech weapons make wars easier to fight, but they also create larger civilian death-tolls. It used to be that military causualties normally outnumbered civilan casualties by a large protportion; that reversed about a century ago.

while religions, even organized ones, can produce some good things, they (especially monotheistic ones) also have their share of mis-use... like weapons.

Answer 10

because Christianity came from a slightly less primitive place that and Christianity is always changing